Nature smiles on Wikipedia
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The British carbon-cellulose journal of the sciences Nature did a comparison study of the accuracy of the silicon-based Wikipedia vs. the carbon-cellulose Britannica. Fifty pairs of articles from the two paedias were sent to accredited experts. A Hitchhiker’s Guide* of article pairs were found to be suitable for the sample. In an article posted Wednesday December 14, 2005 Nature noted that both paedias had errors, but Wikipedia only slightly more than Britannica. The Associated Press sent out an article the next morning, picked up by Information Week which was then reported by CNN. As far as I can tell, it was first brought to the Harvardlibrarysphere by j’s scratchpad ahead of IW and CNN. j is active in the Berkman Thursday Blog Group. |
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*42 in S.I. units.
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